October 05, 2009
Short Updates
Good morning! I dropped the older ones off at middle school. Michelle wanted to take the boys to elementary. She's tired of just hanging around the house. Today is the first fitness class that she will not be teaching, but she wishes she could. I'm VPN'd into work for the day.
Wow! (related link) is temporarily down. Thus far it has been more reliable than GMail for me, so it's a bit of a surprise when it doesn't come up.
Diana Gabaldon's new "An Echo in the Bone" is now available from Audible.com. Amazingly it's only 1 credit but is a whopping 46 hours long! Usually lengthy popular releases are 2 credits. Wondering whether Michelle could endure listening to such a tome. On the other hand she has a lot of idle time this month.
Claire and I took a Step and abs class. It was my first time completing a class in a few weeks. The last couple of times I went the butterflies in my stomach ruined my workout. It was Claire's first time with this particular instructor but she did well. She's a chip off her mom's block.
Bookmarks I made today:
Where Are the Children?
Excerpt: Director Rick Stout and producer Barry McLerran argue that contrary to conventional wisdom, the world is running out of people, especially young ones. And while the world’s population will rise until 2050 — to 9.2 billion people (mainly due to people living longer) — after that it will begin an ever...
Even More Conservative Health Reform Ideas
Comment: Ideas I could get behind...
Excerpt: President Barack Obama consistently accuses Americans who are skeptical about his health care plan of supporting the status quo. Like much of what Obama says about health care, this simply isn’t true.
What We Would Have Told Obama
Comment: There was a White House Rose Garden event w/President Obama but these three past presidents of the AMA were not invited. Their insights would have been useful in the debate on how best to improve health care.
Excerpt: In The Wall Street Journal, three former presidents of the American Medical Association say that more government health insurance will hurt patient care and interfere with the development of needed medical innovations. They outline less costly and more efficient reforms to the health-care system.
Cash for Clunkers Fails to Help Economy and Environment
Comment: *cough* A variant of the classic 'broken windows fallacy' Never heard of it? Google it.
Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal writes that car sales have sunk in the wake of cash for clunkers. As critics predicted, all the program seems to have done is move up auto purchases.
Snapshots I took today:
